To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Every breath is a resurrection.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

Maybe she loved me, maybe not –who knows?Not even the godscan see intoa human heart –it’s that dark.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

Organic food production has existed for thousands of years (since the beginning of agriculture) and it will continue as long as humans live on the planet.

I am half child, half ancient.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

No resource will flourish if managed by government.

If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.