Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.