... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.