“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

“It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”

“In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

“The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.”

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”