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...

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its...

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world...

In the white man’s world, language, too — and the way which the white man thinks of it–has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted,...

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can...

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

In the beginning was the Word’. I have taken as my text this evening the almighty Word itself. Now get this: ‘There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came...

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let’s in celebration; / We have contained the population.

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but...

It’s a matter of honor, death. It’s your white page, do you see? Or your shame. Either you’re worthy of it or you ain’t. To accept it, to face it with honor and respect and...

Art is affirmation.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.