You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.
Whatever we make the most of is our God.
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.