It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing. . . . A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.
The laureateship [of U. S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry. Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.
Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.