Poetry is frosted fire.

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.

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.

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

Thy word O God is light that brightens my path.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.