It’s history. It’s poetry.

What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and calling them forward, into greater and greater shalom and respect and rights and peace and dignity and equality. It's as if human history were progressing along a trajectory, an arc, a continuum; and sacred history is the capturing and recording of those moments when people became aware that they were being called and drawn and pulled forward by the divine force and power and energy that gives life to everything.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

to be considered an important event in the philosophical world.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born.