“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

What we live by we die by.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I always entertain great hopes.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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.

I write poetry hoping that one day I fall in love with the poet.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places – on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

I’ve written poetry most of my life.

As her words became poetry, the poetry became a song. As her heart became his, he became one with her.

Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.

In people and poetry I have found a way to heal.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.