A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.