When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

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.

The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.