I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Archetypes are the mirror images of our never to be seen self

On the fifth day, they told my parents I was on the bottom of the chart, and there was nothing else they could do.

Life needs a room so hermetically sealed to breathe life

Never forget the child inside

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

People have multiple identities.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.