The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

And in blessing himI was blessed, And in comforting himI was comforted…

Be great, read great books.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell