Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

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

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.