It Takes Courage To Lead A Life.

Unhappiness Is Our Element. We Come To Believe We Can't Function Without It.

I Am Not Sure If Love Is A Salve Or Just A Deeper Kind Of Wound.

Poetry Is The Inner Life Of A Culture, Its Nervous System, Its Deepest Way Of Imagining The World. A Culture That Ignores Its Poets, Chokes Off Its Nervous System And Becomes Mortally Ill.

Nothing You Write Is Ever Lost To You. At Some Other Level Your Mind Is Working On It.

Advice Is What We Ask For When We Already Know The Answer But Wish We Didn't.