I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.

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