We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.