A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.