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Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
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Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
