We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

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.

One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.'

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.