notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.