I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

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

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.