You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.