And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

Love is proved in the letting go.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

What God want me to be, I shall be by His grace.

Realize the self of yourself.

Revolution starts within our own heart, not on the street

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.