Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears