Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

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.

Discouragement is your greatest enemy

There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.

I'm so excited [to be Miss USA]. It's a dream come true.

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.