Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

I watch a lot of astronaut movies....Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.

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I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.