“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair!I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”

“Oh you the creator, you the destroyer, you who sustain and make an end,Who in sunlight dance among the birds and the children at their play,Who at midnight dance among corpses in the burning grounds,You Shiva, you dark and terrible Bhairava,You Suchness and Illusion, the Void and All Things,You are the lord of life, and therefore I have brought you flowers;You are the lord of death, and therefore I have brought you my heart—This heart that is now your burning ground.Ignorance there and self shall be consumed with fire.That you may dance, Bhairava, among the ashes.That you may dance, Lord Shiva, in a place of flowers,And I dance with you.”

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”