In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

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.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.