Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.
Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune. . . Income seldom exceeds personal development.
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.
America's definitely a trendsetter, and it's where a lot of information goes out to the rest of the world.