The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.