If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoopin the oats, to air in the lunglet evening come.Let it come, as it will, and don'tbe afraid. God does not leave uscomfortless, so let evening come.

Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

You are a good dancer in your soul. Let's release it!

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.