What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

Wander with intentinto a garden glorious.Walk with double briskupon edenic paths.Flee the cursing fearthat lights upon your eye.Seize the twisted dreamthat strangles earth and sky.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.