There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.

Impatience kills quickly.

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

The heart and the almanac never agree about time.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!