Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.