Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

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.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.