I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.