I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.