1. “Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.”
2. “Exchange is creation.”
3. “The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.”
4. “Reality is the completion of experience.”
5. “Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.”
6. “One writes in order to feel.”
7. “My lifetime listens to yours.”
8. “Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness.”
9. “Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”
10. “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
11. “Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.”
12. “I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.”
13. “Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.”
14. “Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.”
15. “Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.”
16. “All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
17. “There is also, in any history the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
18. “Flight is intolerable contradiction.”
19. “The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”
20. “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are lest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.”
