Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.