The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Always take failure as an opinion never as an option.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Beautiful beginnings are often born from ugly endings.

So many things become beautiful when you really look

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.