So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it
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.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive.
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.