However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. ☥

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

Worry more about being social, and worry less about doing social media

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.