"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries."
- Theodore Roethke
"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
"By daily dying, I have come to be."
"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go."
"What's madness but nobility of soulAt odds with circumstance? The day's on fire!I know the purity of pure despair,My shadow pinned against a sweating wall,That place among the rocks--is it a cave,Or w..."
"My Papa's Waltz:The whiskey on your breathCould make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was not easy.We romped until the pansSlid from the kitchen shelf;My mother's countenanceCo..."
"What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance."
"What's freedom for? To know eternity."
"I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,The wheel turning away from itself,The sprawl of the wave,The on-coming water..."
"The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead."