The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
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.
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men