But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.

The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.

Always be with the one who makes you smile

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

Teaching is not telling and learning is not having been told.

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.