Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes, " began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes.

Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.

No one tells me what to do -- in any capacity.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

I don't believe in faeries!

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

Ice is nice at any price.

Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.