O. A. Quotes

Poetry is the exploration of all human emotions on all levels, through temperamental language, and only people with emotion can relate or understand the process, of uncovering a feeling that may or may not have been there from the beginning of the poem...

Trust in me, the poet to show you a new world with each and every poem, I am both Aladdin and Jasmine revealing a whole new world, from every POV everytime you open one of my books of poetry...

You never know what you're looking for in a poem, until you find it, and then the truth is as palpable as sandpaper against the grain...

Love is the one thing worth fighting for, although if you fight for it, make sure its worth losing everything, if you go all in...

Life is a journey that will take a lifetime to get where you're meant to be going...

The Climate Crisis is a catastrophe waiting to happen in everybody's lifetime, so don't be fooled thinking it can't happen to you... Or you are immune to Mother Nature's coercion of destiny...

Understanding poetry is the quiet rumbling of your heart, mind, and soul all moving in the right direction...

Poetry is in all living things, its that magical, unexplainable thing that fuels everything, making the world electric, and kinetic...

I once read Allen Ginsberg's Howl at my local public library... I immediately realized the great poet's genius, and knew in that moment that I would never create something as monumental in Literature...

Mary Oliver was a great poet who saw the secret lives of trees and everything it meant to be a part of Mother Nature's Cohort...