Unforgiveness, splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree. Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.
My Personality unfolding before you like a Swiss Army knife.
How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.
Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.
If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.
Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.
There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
Poetry is a connection to a change within you.
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.
If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.
Lineation can make your break your poems.
Envy won't make you a better poet.
If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.
Mental clarity ain't for the faint of heart.
I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.
The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.
Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.
Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it