So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

Your absence has gone through me

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.

Every minute is eternity.

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

The real question is not what's wrong with Trump, what's up with Trump, but what's up with the establishment.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.