The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.