All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.