Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

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.

Unsuccessful people are seduced by celebrity, name and fame.

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn't have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save us.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Most every day — if not every day — for the rest of your life, you will be reminded or think of this night. And I want to thank you in advance right now for the great memories it’s going to be.

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna

I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.