One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

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.

The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine!

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

Too many people never catch tomorrow as they let go of today. Capture the precious now instead of holding onto the hope of tomorrow.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold