The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

We save the world by being alive ourselves.