I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

One tends to write beyond what's needed

What are the questions you wish to ask?

Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.

Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.

The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.