What destruction have I been blessed by?

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Focus your heart, mind, and soul on joy and you'll find ultimate success and fulfillment.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

You're a wizard, Harry.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

I want to be the best player possible.