What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.