To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

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 art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

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

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.