I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

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

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

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

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.