I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.