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.
Between roars the lion purrs.
Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who shall we follow next? Who shall we kill next time?
So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my father showed us all one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell something better about to happen.
If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
I'll be me, but I don't like it.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.
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.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading
The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t g...
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
...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.
Now has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by and a willow listens gracefully. I hear all this, every summer. I laugh and cry for every turn of the world, its terribly cold, innoc...
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
