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

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

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

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.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It'stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.

So what else have they said you can’t do and how many of those have you believed?

To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.