Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.
Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?