Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.