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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Angels began shining when they achieved discipline.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Every breath taken in by the man
Who loves, and the woman who loves,
Goes to fill the water tank
Where the spirit horses drink.

Where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

I knew this friendship with myself couldn't last forever.

We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.

If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

Some men live with an invisible limp,
stagger, or drag
a leg. Their sons are often angry.

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us,

READY TO SLEEP
Don't be afraid
The great lettuce of the world
Is all around us.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,
Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,
Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

My life failed on the very day I was born.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

Like a note of music, you are about to become nothing

I want nothing from You but to see You.

The deeper question ... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform ... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge ...

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

We are bees then; our honey is language.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

We make the path by walking.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

I know men who are healthier at fifty than they've ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

It's all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Last night in my dream a man I did not know whispered in my ear that he was disappointed with me, and that I had lost his friendship.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

We will have to call especially loud to reach Our angels, who are hard of hearing; they are hiding In the jugs of silence filled during our wars.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

The candle is not lit
To give light, but to testify to the night.

Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,
And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,
And why the sailing birds are all Romantics.