Death: 'I have watched life's light flicker, and at once fade from their eyes as they passed from this world. I have sat silent and frightened, with tears streaming from my eyes as I tried to grasp some salient thought about the absence of their breath. I have collected stories from these people, many of whom exist only as a memory in my mind, and a sentiment in my poetry.'

Apathy: 'We are all struggling, whether we know it at times or not. Even in our moments of individual bliss, an incubus of ignorance, fear and hunger still hau…

Knowledge: 'True meaning is an apparition. Life is complex and full of illusions. Absolute understanding in this life is unattainable, and time without profoun…

Love: 'True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.'

Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him! Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears! Not for him who has died full of honor and years! Not …

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their g…

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.