I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible, ' he said.

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?

The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.