Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.
To be social is to be forgiving.
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
Writing a poem is discovering.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
Don't be an agnostic. Be something.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
What we live by we die by.
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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