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.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.