Occupation: Poet Birth: 1916 Death: 1999
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other..
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance..
Compassion is an alternate perception.
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow ….
We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ours….
Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will..
To have character is to be big enough to take life on..
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life..
The big art is our life..
There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do..
The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He ident….
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom..
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . ..
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is….
From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top….
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumbl….
Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law..
Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us..
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized..
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushe….
It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the di….