One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.
Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?
. . . the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.
Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.