I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.