To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you.

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

It's a little premature to be claiming that this is a done deal, but certainly Rex Tillerson is American icon and businessman that I think is a pretty incredible guy.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.