The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.