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

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

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

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.

May God give us much more grace to eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.