Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

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.

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.