The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.