I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.