The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

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.

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.