A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
~ Carl Sandburg
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
