The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.