Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to experience something and when you begin to write about it be able to apply the tools that you need for writing.

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.