“I want these words to make things right. But is the wrong that makes the words come to life.”
“If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!”
“Words have the power to make things true if they're said right.”
“But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word”
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”
“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”