It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

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

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.