Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

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 felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

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

I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.