Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

In nature there are few sharp lines

Interviewer: "What's the best thing you've learned on Idol?"Dalton Rapattoni: "Double-tie your shoelaces.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

God's hand never slips.

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.