Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.