Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.

I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.