We read, we travel, we become.

The thing that is believed is a reality.

How can I turn from Africa and live?

We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.