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

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.

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.

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.