Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.