Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

America is the only developed nation in the world with no guaranteed paid leave of any kind. That means we're leaving a whole lot of talent on the sidelines.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.

People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.