I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.