15 quotes found
Poet · American · 1951
American poet (born 1951)
“The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.”
“I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.”
“Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?”
“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
“When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.”
“The reward for being sensitive is that were held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.”
“Its like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.”
“There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.”
“Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.”
“If peace comes from seeing the whole,then misery stems from a loss of perspective.We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life ...”
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that...”
“I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. (p.275)”
“It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.”
“The reward for being sensitive is that we’re held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.”
“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)”
