Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.