“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.”

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

I dwell in possibility.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.

I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!

Don’t forget growth is painful.

Like the mountain, she rises above every challenge, every mistake, every heartbreak.

The night is never too dark for the ones who look for the stars.

You could have left me in the jungle. I would have survived and mastered bird language. Adaptability is my secret weapon.

Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.

Its dangerous but you can’t surf on ripples.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.