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

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

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.

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.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.