Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars..

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God..

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget..

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry..

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblin….

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude despe….

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….

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..

I want nothing from You but to see You..

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made..

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs..

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing….

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border..

People tend to take stories literally these days..

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have..

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party..

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is ….

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..

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore..

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out ag….

Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry..