The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

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

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.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

How to build a fire: stay true to your perspective! Then burn.

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

The good is the enemy of the best.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.