Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.