Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Birds Fly in the Sky, because they don't know how to Cry! They know just one thing, to Sing!

Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before.

I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Killing more people won't help matters.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.