My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

If you believe, it shall be.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.