Occupation: Poet Birth: December 23, 1926
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend..
Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings..
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags..
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God..
You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened….
The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper o….
People tend to take stories literally these days..
I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks lik….
Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry..
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone..
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet th….
I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society..
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again..
The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed..
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs..
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation..
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?.
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be..
The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society..
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to….
Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars..