If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.

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.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.