A fool can offer words, a creator can offer worlds
An academic can show you a world, a dreamer invites you into it
Consumers of knowledge are everywhere, generators of knowledge are the rarity
Anyone can summarize the great thoughts of others, yet not simply anyone can have great thoughts
An English teacher can beat a word into submission, a wordsmith can heal its wounds
A protector of doctrine can outline a concept, a lover of the world asks the concept why
A Truth can be hard/concrete or it can be Truth
The beginning of truth is the end of knowledge
Prose can show you the road, only poetry can create it
History can give you a story, the future must give you a home
You can audition for the world or you can make the world watch your audition
God can be your cage or God can be gateway
If God is love than love is our ultimate concern
The letterbox is the world, what do we drop into it
We can use our imagination or we can die thinking we see
Why be busy learning the story of others when you can write the story yourself
Meaning can be learned…might it be better created
Pain cannot be written, it can only be felt
Silence has a voice heard in its speechlessness
Vision is not what you see it’s what happens when you close your eyes
Love is unspeakable; it is the language of her stare
It is not happiness to write, it is sadness to quiet it
Longfellow turned to words, why must you then turn to Law
Thoreau found himself in the woods, after he was lost
Poe saw beauty yet we confuse it with madness
Freud thought the unthinkable and we remain thoughtless
Lacan dared write the real and we confused it with his words
Jesus is the son of freedom and we have preached a gospel of sadness
Faith is never certain and certainty cannot be faith
If you fear nothing than for what do you live