Love is what you are, not what you give or get!
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.
Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.