The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.