We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Your presence was shore where I rested released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke with my true voice again.
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.
There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.
I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.