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

...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?