Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link they have engaged with the poem.
Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country...
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of...
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely...
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.