In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

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.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.