Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

At our best, we're all teachers

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.