I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

The hands are churches that worship the world.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

why are we so monumentally slow?