We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

Don't follow your dreams; chase them.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.