It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

hit with your fist, not with your finger spread

The Lord is my ‘Strong Fortress’.The Lord is my ‘Solid Rock’.

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.

You do not know what you have and how you are blessed until you have nothing..Count all your blessings.

What its children become that will the community become.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.