“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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

We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

If you’re looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Love makes everything complicated, and emotions always go wild in the beginning. But when it’s real, you should hold on tight.

Sex is an emotion in motion.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what’s true. We care how it feels.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Anxiety is one of the most contagious emotions – that’s why it always takes down groups of people, not just individuals.⁣⁣

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.