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.

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

Envy won’t make you a better poet.

Impatience kills quickly.

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.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

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.

Mental clarity ain’t for the faint of heart.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

I’ve never heard anyone say “I wish I hadn’t forgiven.

Every advantage is temporary.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Being safe doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry.

Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that’s a good thing.

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If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.

If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

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.

If you can’t feel anything, it doesn’t mean it’s not hurting.

Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it

If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.