Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f

A billion stars go spinning through the night, glittering above your head, But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.