A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Now I am almost entirely love.

Beauty was worthIts every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending, As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.

We decide how much we want our past to be a part of our present.I stopped inviting the past into my life.It took the hint and stopped showing up.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love.

I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

You are here for a reason.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.