The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.