Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity..

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart..

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things..

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Becaus….

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom..

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom..

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor ….

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory..

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champm….

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unf….

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was resc….

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have den….

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why..

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds..

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee..

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth..

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds wi….

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name..

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in..

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undiv….

Life was a storm to wander through..