All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

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.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

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.

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

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.

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