I Wanted To Spend All My Time

I Saw Sophia Loren - The Italian Woman With Those Wonderful Cheekbones - In A Movie The Other Day. She Must Have Had 24 Face-lifts, And She Looks Like An Alien, As If She Weren't From This World At All. Her Italian Wrinkles Would Have Been A Thousand Times More Beautiful.

You Have An Utterly Sincere Glance When You Look Around After You Are Shipwrecked. You Weep A Long Time On An Island When You Realize What's Happened To You.

An Elder Is Someone Who Understands That The World Belongs To The Dead.

Some People Can't Go Into Church Any Longer To Feel This Longing, But They Still Have The Longing, So What Do They Do? Well, One Thing You Can Do Is What People Do In Prison; They Turn To Poetry.

Reclaiming The Sacred In Our Lives Naturally Brings Us Close Once More To The Wellsprings Of Poetry.