“I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.”

Theodore Roethke    1908-1963

“I trust all joy.”

“Love is not love until love's vulnerable”

“A mind too active is no mind at all.” 

“Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”

“What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?” 

“May my silences become more accurate.” 

“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.” 

"Being, not doing, is my first joy."