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

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.