“As human beings weve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that were not here were not put on earth to shape it anyway we want... You want something t...”

“Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead now have learnt this long,Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.”

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore,Disciples of that astigmatic saint,That we would never leave the islandUntil we had put down, in paint, in words,As palmists learn the network of a hand,All of ...”

“Let them run ahead. Then Ill have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. Thats the most dangerous crime. It brin...”

“Who with the Devil tries to play fair,weaves the net of his own despair.Oh, smile; whats a house between drunkards?”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”