“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.”

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”

“Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.”