My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoopin the oats, to air in the lunglet evening come.Let it come, as it will, and don'tbe afraid. God does not leave uscomfortless, so let evening come.

The power of positive thinking begins when you refuse to accept defeat, and start preparing yourself for future possibilities. The only thing standing in the way of your breakthrough, is you!

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field.

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.