Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Most sex is not really intimate.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.