My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Tell the truth. . . maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
You cannot play for safety and make art.
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.
I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.