Wisdom

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

The deepest poverty is to live without poetry and beauty in one's life.

We should all put our treasures where they are safe, in the sacred places of our hearts, and not in material buildings.

In our burdened lives we overlook our blessings too easily. And missing blessings is the same as wasting them.

A suspicious man would be content to write nothing and happy to be silent.

It is not reiteration or book learning or argument that gives knowledge, but sight and examination and perception.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

I am not a surrealist. I am surreal.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

Nothing a man does is either better or worse than the way he does it.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

I have many favorite words, but I'm not sure that I love any words.

I am a recording instrument. I do not presume to impose 'story' 'plot' 'continuity.'

Perception is a question of learning to see and understand.

A good writer is hard to find, and difficult to part with.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

The more you go within, the more your spirit lifts.

A poem is a journey to the core of emotions.