Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

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

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

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.