We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Words are great, but actions speak louder!

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

I'm probably a little too uninhibited.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?