A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.

The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.

If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.

Whenever she felt at home, there always seemed to be love floating about on the edges of things.

I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking along, loving.

To believe in moments makes life endless, no?

O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.

If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

There's a second component of a good savings plan, which is something that a colleague of mine called Schlomo Benartzi and I developed many years ago, that we call "save more tomorrow."

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.