Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

Pay attention… How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they’ll behave during relationship challenges.

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

A speech that's full of sparkling wit will keep its hearer grinning provided its end is close to its beginning.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.