What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

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

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.