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.

In nature there are few sharp lines

You either see it or you don't

The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

My first wife was a theater person.

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.