A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.