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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
Language can do what it can’t say.
If you purify the pond, the lilies die
If you can say it, it begins to exist.
Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
There are so many things admirable people do not understand.
When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.
...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.
The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.