“I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.” MindLightTruthTurnsWonderStrangeBordersWrong Turn Author:Denise Levertov
“There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.” KnowsMindKindSongGirlStrangeMoonTornFeathersOld WomanRagsOpal Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.” KnowsMindHeartKindSelfMomentsFacesCan DoWorstAweCracksShells Book:The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes Source: The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes
“Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.” MindWarPeaceConditionsCastsScreensUbuntuInterim Book:New & Selected Essays Source: New & Selected Essays