poetry

"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."

"Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is."

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it."

"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."

"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."

"I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it"

"I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created."

"So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing,and put your lips to the world.And live your life."

"The past is always tense, the future perfect."

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you."

"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!"

"She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach."

"Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada."

"You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face"

"no’ might make them angrybut it will make you free."

"Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."