That's What Being Young Is

That We Arrived At Fifty Years Together Is Due As Much To Luck As To Love, And A Talent For Knowing, When We Stumble, Where To Fall, And How To Get Up Again.

Paradise Is To Be The Ultimate Instrument, Fulfilling God's Desperate Intent That We Love Each Other.

The Kind Of Beauty I Want Most Is The Hard-to-get Kind That Comes From Within - Strength, Courage, Dignity.

God, Make Me So Uncomfortable That I Will Do The Very Thing I Fear.

My Mother - My Stepmother, Really, She Herself Have Been What They Call An Elocutionist. And She Was The One Who First Encouraged Me To Write Poetry, Because She Used To Read It To Us. And Then When I Began To Write When I Was Nine Years Old, My First Poem Was Published In The Amsterdam News. I Called It "the Graveyard."