slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

The only thing limiting you is yourself.

I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.

I cannot contain this. Please, can we all have something sexual together? You're both beautiful, even just a hug.'

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated