I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

I have lived long enough to know that wherever there is crisis there is always Christ. Look for Jesus in the middle of all your crisis. Whenever He comes the whole storm goes down.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.