As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.