The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

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.

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

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.