You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

You are ... who you are... you can't change that.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the table for dinner.” ♥ Gladys Taber.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

It's no surprise that the corporate media, and many of the nonprofits that are dependent on the big money, they are not allowing our campaign the real alternative to see the light of day.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Acknowledgment, award, appreciation.

And here goes Aguero, looking to relieve himself.