Memory is a poet, not an historian.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

I am living. I remember you.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

We who lose our footing have lost our way.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

I think one of the things the church service means is hope.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.