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

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

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.

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.

I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.