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

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

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.

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

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?