Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

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

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

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

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

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.