The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.