even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are hoping to serve. So this is just a part of my nature and I think everybody else's nature to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only then that we can locate that willingness to serve.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.