Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.