I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.