To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. - Robert Frost

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."