Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

[God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Police do not belong in war zones.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

What is so real as the cry of a child?

I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.