War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
You can’t really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that’s probably true of any work of art – a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is ‘real,’ but everything matters.
Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can’t be overcome.
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
Life is inherently disturbing. That’s why we’ve created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.
God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.
Dead people are easy to love. It’s the living ones who are hard.
Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don’t get done are often the most worthwhile.
Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.
We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.
Life is a poem most people never read.
Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.