Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one.