Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.