“History says, Dont hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme”

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”

“All I know is a door into the dark”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ”

“Trees are where Nature has simply begun”

“When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”

“May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Pass...”

“The truth is: I was lost in him. I had gone from losing one of the most important people in my life and then losing someone I loved a month later. I wrapped myself in people, in lust, in the idea o...”

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”

“Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.”

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”

“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”

“Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.”