Author Quotes

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”

“Let the beauty we love do what we do.”

“There is a window between heart and heart:They are never separate like two bodies.Two lamps may not be united in their form -But their light merges into each other.”

“Close the language-door,and open the love-window”

“I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.”

“Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.”

“Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.”

“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”

“What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.”

“There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.”

“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”

“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

“Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.”

“Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.”

“Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”

“When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

“Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.”

“Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.”

“Love is fearless in the midstof the sea of fear.”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”