“Poetry is the smallest way – it is a small, small way, but it is a way indeed – that the individual body can express its own personhood and value in the face of faceless systems.”
“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of livin”
“But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.”
“I will die, in my own small way, undefeated.”
“...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.”
“I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.”