I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I write poems to find out why I write them

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Even now - in the final hour of my life -I'm falling in love again.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

Be fully awake in the sacred moment.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.

People who say they read more write better.