“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as they should be.”

“Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.”

“He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a single dead flower.”

“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”

“Rather than speaking the truth for the right reasons we may want to make our point defend our position or put the other person down. The truth be told but it should be done at the right time for the right reasons and with the right attitude.”

“The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has taken for subject. If the poem is thin, it is likely so not because the poet does not know enough words, but because he or she has not stood long enough among the flowers--has not seen them in any fresh, exciting, and valid way.”