Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.

The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.