a poet never feels useful.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

In any circumstance, call on God.

The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.