In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.

Do according to your capability.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.