“I left parts of myself everywhere,The way absent-minded people leaveGloves and umbrellasWhose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck”

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

“When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.”

“I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!”

“Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".”

“The stars know everything,So we try to read their minds.As distant as they are,We choose to whisper in their presence.”

“A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.”