If One Reads Enough Books, One Has

If I Wasn't Writing Poems I'd Be Washing My Hands All The Time.

I Refuse To Censor Myself And Kids Will Find Their Own Way To My Books And To All Of The Books That Matter To Them. As I Write More Honestly More Kids Will Make Their Way Toward Me. And In Subverting Their Repressive Parents Kids Will Learn The Value Of Subverting The Repressive Nature Of All Authority Figures.

What Kind Of Life Can You Have In A House Without Books?

You Have To Love Somebody That Much To Also Hate Them That Much, Too. (191)

She Braided My Sister's Hair With Hands That Smelled Deep Roots Buried In The Earth She Told Me The Old Stories How Time Never Mattered When She Died They Gave Me Her Clock