The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

…in the library…surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.