Don't be agnostic - be something.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.