Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

You can't go wrong with love.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.