The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

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

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

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.

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

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