In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

I like the bumper sticker that reads, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” But that does not give us license to live below God’s standard.

The two words expressed volumes.

It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.