After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

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

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

My cradle was a shoe.