The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.