A farmer’s market is worth more than everything I’ve written.
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an “object.” This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman’s silence receiving the river’s grace, the gardener’s musing on rows...
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men...
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.