God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

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.

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.

The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.