Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

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

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

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

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.