I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

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• Ben Okri:

  Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the

• James Weldon Johnson:

  Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

• Matthew Arnold:

  Journalism is literature in a hurry.

• Matthew Prior:

  The ends must justify the means.

• Alfred Austin:

  There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to th

• Edmund Spenser:

  He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

• Emma Lazarus:

  Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

• Emma Donoghue:

  I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

• John Guare:

  All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

• David Henry Hwang:

  I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if th