The greatness of one's mind can only be activated when one learns to unlock the doors to one's opportunities and possibilities with it.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.

Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.