I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I hope for peace on earth and for all beings to realise their inner potential.

And you’re beautiful. You’d have to work pretty hard to mess that up.

Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.