Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
And I say to my heart: rave on.
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.
Each of us can do something to help someone.
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
Death can be hastened but never shared.