I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

Is thyselves even a word?

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.