We make the path by walking.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.