Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

I am living. I remember you.

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.