Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

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.

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.