This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

The tide tarrieth no man.

Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.