All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality. . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.
I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.
We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.