Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

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.

You must work hard to get what you want.

The divine moment is holy.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

Suffering does not discriminate.

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.