Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Which people show you an attitude, they people have not an aptitude...

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

I began to pay attention to Scripture and meet people who walked the walk, and little by little, I guess you could call me a born again Christian. 1978 is when I found my walk with the Lord.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.