To write is to make a pact with silence.
Every seed we plant carries the potential to transform lives.
"We are all broken by something. We have all been hurt by life in some way. But we can be mended. We can be made whole again."
"The poet's job is to pay attention, then to pay attention to what they've paid attention to."
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.