They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

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

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.