“Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.”

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Poetry is life distilled.

Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

It is brave to be involved.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.

It’s ok to deal with your own shit by making yourself a priority. 

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

A lot of people don’t want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins.

We should all learn from our experiences, but I don’t think hatred is the best way to deal with ignorance.

We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.

I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.