Occupation: Poet Birth: March 15, 1959
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this i….
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder c….
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but ….
We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of paren….
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life..
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases..
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide..
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. ….
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci….
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home..
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, ….
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. ….
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does..
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than….
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your g….
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a s….
I know that human beings are capable of anything..
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell..
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're bo….
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering..
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination..