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.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.