For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.