I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

I am a farmer singing at the plow

Starlight beats when heart twinklesYouthful sky beyond cloudy wrinklesMuse of glory to flame the nightVerse inscribed as written light

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

We need help, the poet reckoned.

The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?