If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

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

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

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.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.