Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

The future is always beginning now.