There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

My cradle was a shoe.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

What you remember saves you.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us