...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

Believe that you can and you are halfway there

We have to imagine our dreams becoming reality. We must keep pursuing them and reaching beyond for future achievements. We never stop dreaming as long as we imagine.

I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thingin heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?”The answer: the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet.

Our glass train, on fragile tracksBeneath bombs that fall like the floodTo wash away the shards—But all this sorrow will recedeAnd we will leaveTwo by twoAnd until then, I will only think of you.

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness