You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway..

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching..

Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of….

I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to….

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the art….

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails..

My life failed on the very day I was born..

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided a….

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere..