I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

I can't wait until they don't have me here anymore.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.