it has finally dawned on me that if i build a home within myself, a palace of peace created with my own awareness and love, this can be the refuge i have always been seeking.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

I wanted to write poetry in the beginning because I had fallen in love with words.

I will dream to become a great writer or great poet of the world.

I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple — or a green field — a place to enter, and in which to feel.

I want to make a poem of my life.

I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them,

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams...

My idea of paradise is that period just before the sun rises and I’m at home painting or writing songs and everything is flowing. I pray that the sun won’t rise so I can paint and write for ever. That’s my ideal time.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.