The essence of nonviolence is choice: acknowledging that we always do have a choice about whether or not to use violence, and posing an expanded rang… - Starhawk

This is how it works: Someone has a vision that arises from a fierce and passionate love. To make it real, we must love every moment of what we do. Impermanent spirals embed themselves in asphalt, concrete, dust. Slowly, slowly, they eat into the foundations of the structures of power. Deep transformations take time. Regeneration arises from decay. Si, se puede! It can be done. (p26)

His image is poemagogic: It both symbolizes and sparks the creative process, which is itself a Quest.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.