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" Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. "

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" Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. "

" We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. "

" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "

" Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. "

" The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death. "

" The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again. "

" We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief. "

" One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity. "

" A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. "

" Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed. "

" To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins. "

" In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms. "

" Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. "

" Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. "

" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "

" The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. "

" Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done. "

" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "

" Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation. "

" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "

" Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. "

" All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment. "

" The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. "

" It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear. "

" Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. "

" There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there. "

" Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. "

" I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time. "

" Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. "

" If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away. "