Cherish your wilderness.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

I am a conduit of happiness and abundance. It comes to me effortlessly so I can give it away with love.

You can comfort me with your words and your gifts but it can not comfort me with the pain you gave

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

You don't dig me, I don't understand what it is, I had my car reupholstered.

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.