Because I loved myself, I was loved.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

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

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

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