patrick's quotes

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

The soul is not really united unless all the bodily energies, all the limbs of the body, are united.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Happiness & unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First & foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle. And the dirt. Just to make clear where they come from.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves...

Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvelous error! - that a spring was breaking out in my heart...

In a boat down a fast-running creek, it feels like trees on the bank are rushing by. What seems to be changing around us is rather the speed of our craft leaving this world.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside!

The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation.