All good poems are victories over something.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

Our healing is in His hands".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.

The curriculum of the future will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum.

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

If children have interest, then Education happens

I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.