Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.

If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been