Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.