Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

America should function as a Christian nation.

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.