I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

I can't even imagine having twins.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

The biggest opportunity for light to have extreme impact is where there is extreme darkness.

Sustenance! Your health is always the best prescription.

Everything will change in your life when you finally learn that you deserve SO MUCH BETTER

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.