My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

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.

you are a person, not a shredder.so quit tearing yourself to shreds.

You will realize your life is most peaceful when you actually stop caring or worrying about things and situations you can not change.

Memories of one's past are tainted. There are no truths to be found in them.

Will there be cheese?" asked Chisolm.

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

People change. Memories don't.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.