“Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.”
“Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.* I gazed with a kind of wonder. It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path ; and I again went out. * The moon.”
“He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.”
“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.”