“The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”

“Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.”

“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...”

“the poem doesn’t have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn’t have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written with letters, it’s written/ with grains of sand and kisses, petals and moments, shouts and/ uncertainties.”

“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”

“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”