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

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.

There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.

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

Hell is life drying up.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.