“Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.”

“I love what's left after love has been tested.”

“He held her like a new womanand what she feltfelt almost as good as love had,and each of them called it lovebecause precision didn’t matter anymore.”

“I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.”

“All good poems are victories over something.”

“Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.”

“When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.”