What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

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.

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

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.

Tracer lighting up the sky.It's another families' turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here.And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.

I was glad when the invalids were executed

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.