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

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.

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.

In nature there are few sharp lines

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.