1. The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities”.”
2. “Your great mistake is to at the drama as if you were alone.”
3. “Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.”
4. “The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.”
5. “Genius is becoming something you were all along.”
6. “Vulnerability is not weakness but a faculty for understanding.”
7. “The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else’s life thinking it was your own.”
8. “To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden a a gift to others.”
9. “Whether we say o whether we go – to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.”
10. “The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.”
11. “Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.”
12. “I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.”
13. “A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they ae or what they want.”
14. “There is no house like the house of belonging.”
15. “To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.”
16. “e are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.”
17. “Poetry is a break for freedom.”
18. “Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
19. “Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.”
20. “Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.”
21. “Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.”
22. “Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.”
23. “Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.”
24. “The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. it’s wholeheartedness.”
25. “The courageous conversation is the one you don’t want to have.”
26. “Put don the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.”
27. “The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.”
28. “Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.”
29. “To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.”
30. “Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.”
