I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Kindness bestowed is embraced with an open heart and welcoming spirit, becoming a re gifted acknowledgement of loving gratitude~Bluenscottish

It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.

Since there was nowhere else he wanted to be and no one else he wanted touching him, Drake shot Gabriel a smug look over his shoulder as he let Victoria take him wherever she wanted.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

I'm always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.