Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

May my silences become more accurate.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.