Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.