The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.