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The joy of being alone, eating the honey of words.

Young men for various reasons wanted their harder women, and women began to desire softer men. It seemed like a nice arrangement for a while, but we’ve lived with it long enough now to see that it isn’t working out.

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

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 was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

There’s a general assumption now that every man in a position of power is or will soon be corrupt and oppressive. Yet the Greeks understood and praised a positive male energy that has accepted authority.

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

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

This resembles the slow discipline of art: it’s the work that Rembrandt did, that Picasso and Yeats and Rilke and Bach did. Bucket work implies much more discipline than most men realize.

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

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

Hair is intuition. Hair is the abundance of perceptions, insights, thoughts, resentments, images, fantasies waiting and ready to come out whenever we are thinking of something else.

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

The Wild Man doesn’t come to full life through being “natural,” going with the flow, smoking weed, reading nothing, and being generally groovy. Ecstasy amounts to living within reach of the high voltage of the golden gifts. The ecstasy comes after thought, after discipline imposed on ourselves, after grief.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

As I’ve gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

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

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

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

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys – while remaining in the human scale – to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee’s wing.

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.

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

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

Angels began shining when they achieved discipline.

Something in the adolescent male wants risk, courts danger, goes out to the edge – even to the edge of death.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

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

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

We are bees then; our honey is language.

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

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

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.

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

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

Zeus energy, which encompasses intelligence, robust health, compassionate decisiveness, good will, generous leadership. Zeus energy is male authority accepted for the sake of the community.

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.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Our story gives a teaching diametrically opposite. It says that where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be. Wherever the wound appears in our psyches, whether from alcoholic father, shaming mother, shaming father, abusing mother, whether it stems from isolation, disability, or disease, that is precisely the place for which we will give our major gift to the community.

I want nothing from You but to see You.

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

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

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

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

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

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.

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

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