"For, looking down the ladder of our deeds,"

"What do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things that we daily see, We plant the spire that out-towers the cr…"

"McMahon up the street of Paris came, In triumph from Magenta. Every one Had heard and praised the fearless marshal’s …"

"Though I were gifted with an angel's tongue, And voice like that with which the prophets sung, Yet if mild charity we…"

"Leaning on thy dear faithful breast, I would resign my breath, And in thy loved embraces lose The bitterness of death."

"… A lot of women have borne a lot of things; a lot of people have borne a lot of things. There’s a certain kind of hu…"

"I would also suggest that everyone read the poetry of Lucille Clifton, a black heterodox Christian woman who seems to…"

"born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself?"

"Other than “the unanswerable question”… It’s the heart speaking, maybe that, maybe the human heart speaking."

"One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected…There is so much history that we have not v…"