It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it.
Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.
Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.