Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

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.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

You only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

The hideous god of war.