Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.

Self-education is the greatest self-liberation.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

There needs to be more Kander & Ebbs and Rodgers & Harts and people like that out there. But, it's so hard to get something looked at and on.