One Day While Studying A Yeats Poem I Decided To Write Poetry The Rest Of My Life. I Recognized That A Single Short Poem Has Room For History, Music, Psychology, Religious Thought, Mood, Occult Speculation, Character, And Events Of One's Own Life. I Still Feel Surprised That Such Various Substances Can Find Shelter And Nourishment In A Poem. A Poem In Fact May Be A Sort Of Nourishing Liquid, Such As One Uses To Keep An Amoeba Alive. If Prepared Right, A Poem Can Keep An Image Or A Thought Or Insights On History Or The Psyche Alive For Years, As Well As Our Desires And Airy Impulses.
The Deeper Question... Is Not Whether Ancient Religious Forms Can Reform... But Whether New Forms Of Nature-related Spirituality Might Emerge.
I Like One Hair, Tuna Fish, The Smell Of Rain And Things That Are Pink. I Hate Pimples, Baked Potatoes, When My Mother's Mad, And Religious Holidays.
What Our Leaders And Pundits Never Let Slip Is That The Terrorists-whatever Else They Might Be-might Also Be Rational Human Beings ; Which Is To Say That In Their Own Minds They Have A Rational Justification For Their Actions. Most Terrorists Are People Deeply Concerned By What They See As Social, Political, Or Religious Injustice And Hypocrisy, And The Immediate Grounds For Their Terrorism Is Often Retaliation For An Action Of The United States.
At Religious Instruction Classes, I Encountered The Pilgrims Progress By John Bunyan, And The Sincerity Of The Traveller In That Book Was Overwhelming.
I Am Pleased Now That I Have Lived In A Gay As Well As A Religious Ghetto, Though It Hasn't Been Very Comfortable. Taken Together, Their Limitations Cancel Each Other Out And I Have Seen The World More Kindly And More Honestly.
The Fact Is, The Most Painful And Tragic Lesson Of The 20th Century Was That Regimes Based On Racial Superiority And Religious Hatred Can't Be Trusted To Keep Their Word To The International Community.
I've Got A Group Who Can't Play Music, One Bad Comedian Plus Boyfriend, A Nervous Breakdown Calling Himself A Magician, Two Coachloads Of 70-year-old Religious Maniacs Looking For A Fight And A Fancy-dress Contest That Nobody Knew About.
Every One Of The Numberless Religions And Religious Sects Views The Deity After Its Own Fashion; And, Fathering On The Unknown Its Own Speculations, It Enforces These Purely Human Outgrowths Of Overheated Imagination On The Ignorant Masses, And Calls Them "revelation." As The Dogmas Of Every Religion And Sect Often Differ Radically, They Cannot Be True. And If Untrue, What Are They?
Poverty Is Everyone's Problem. It Cuts Across Any Line You Can Name: Age, Race, Social, Geographic Or Religious. Whether You Are Black Or White; Rich, Middle-class Or Poor, We Are All Touched By Poverty
'come Hither, My Boy, Tell Me What Thou Seest There?' 'a Fool Tangled In A Religious Snare.'
