Poetry is a break for freedom.

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

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

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 sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

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.