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Poetry keeps longing alive.
We make the path by walking.
I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
I want nothing from You but to see You.
Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
My life failed on the very day I was born.
The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
As a parent you have to do some renunciation.
Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
People tend to take stories literally these days.
Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.
I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.
In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.
I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.