The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
“The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.”
“So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.”