I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

The glue between the horn that pushes and the sinew that pulls. The glue gets ignored, but you know, Ahai, up to half of a bow is glue. I suspect Ogodoi is the son I can least afford to lose.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.