1.
Is it possible to master words?
Yes, in silence.

2.
Silence is the midwife of Revelation.

3.
We speak when we cannot endure our silence.

4.
Write in blood and you discover that even your innermost secret is no secret at all.

5.
Poetry is what happens to prose at boiling point.

6.
The challenge of the artist is how to make pain hummable.

7.
The work of the poet is to help us forgive: ourselves, others and the world.

8.
Sometimes, sanity is not a given but must be rescued from the jaws of insanity.

9.
We read and write books because we forget what we know.

10.
We are taunted by the distance between our best insights and our foolishness.

11.
What you learned late, teach others early.

12.
Social media: poison and its antidote.

13.
Look, closely, you will find poison and its antidote on the same shelf.

14.
Truths need to be jagged-edged to find those hard to reach spaces.

15.
Truth, like Moses’ serpent, devours deception.

16.
The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.

17.
Beyond political activism, there is cultural activism and spiritual activism.

18.
Exiles speak a language that only other exiles can understand.

19.
The human condition? Crossing a bridge of light over a trembling abyss.

20.
Acceptance means you do not need to seek the lesson, only not to resist it.

21.
Remembrance is not passive.

22.
Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,
Remembrance a form of prayer.

23.
Aphorisms are like seeds, carrying entire orchards.

24.
One day, I aspire to align myself with these words (that I call mine).