Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

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.

In nature there are few sharp lines

Our heart is the key to liberating a generation that has been bred to hate.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

The wings of prayer carry high and far.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.