If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.

Impatience kills quickly.

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

Rose is in red, But never in blue, Sharp as a thorn, Fights like one too.

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.’

Art is an emotional experience