You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.