For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

When people think time is against them, they get a different feeling. No one however knows with all certainty, what exactly is in the next moment of time! Something can change!

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.