In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

World is not like what you see

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.