As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.