Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

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

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

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

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.