Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only secondarily, if at all, from the larger organizations.

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.