I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.