Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less tra... - Robert Frost

"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."

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

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."