Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.