I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know<br>What I was walling in or walling out$$$<br>And to whom I was like to give offense.

For dear me$$$ why abandon a belief<br>Merely because it ceases to be true?

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

The heart can think of no devotion<br>Greater than being shore to the ocean$$$<br>Holding the curve of one position$$$<br>Counting an endless repetition.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy$$$ and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.