Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

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

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.