It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

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

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

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.

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

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.