“I would like to make you more aware of yourself as a human, and thus, ultimately a better person.”

“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.”

“This might make for an awkward situation. I have a talent for awkward situations.”

“I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.”

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

“One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.”