Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

One writes in order to feel.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.