“Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.”

“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.”

“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.”

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

“all that really matters to me is that there are critics.”

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”