Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem.

What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.