What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Hell is life drying up.

Do what gives you bliss.

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.