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" 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. "

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" A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away. "

" 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. "

" It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection. "

" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "

" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "

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

" To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past. "

" A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want. "

" We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement. "

" The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "