“Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To get the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.”
“I will forever walk alone in a world overflowing with those that will never understand my meaning of “Learning to See” I’m always teaching myself to see beauty in all aspects of reality, yearning to learn the beauty in others, from their vision of everyday life to their deepest secrets of their dreams. As the sun rises I must smile, smile for those with the beautiful mind and soul. I’m so passionate for the visions I see, and the dreams I wish the world could be.”
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’. People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what you should name it.”
“In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.”
“Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.”
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”
“In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.”
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?”
“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”
“He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.”
“We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.”
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in the darkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.”
“My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.”
“Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.”
“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”
“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taking us for suckers and is playing a mean game.”
“What you gain here, you lose on the other side.”