I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.