I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.

Was it enough to wear the night with me just once? I am unsatisfied.

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.