“Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.”

“Even the most political poem is an act of faith.”

“The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.”

“You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you’re trapped in a moment you’ll never be able to change.”

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”

“...forgive your enemies...it messes with their heads.”

“The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.”