“Men of talent have to be goaded to engage in creative work. The groans and laments of even the most gifted and prolific echo through the ages.”

“You have to really work at it to write. I guess there has to be talent first; but even with talent you still have to work at it, to write.”

“Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.”

“Lament for an Aging Politician”

“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.”

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.”

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”

“The nearest we approach God…is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action.”

“The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.”