Behave Quote by Sam Hamill

If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward…

— Sam Hamill

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln…

— Sam Hamill

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a…

— Sam Hamill

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along…

— Sam Hamill

There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. Others…

— Sam Hamill

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know…

— Sam Hamill

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

— Sam Hamill

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

— Sam Hamill

Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin…

— Sam Hamill

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu has to…

— Sam Hamill

The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's gained by…

— Sam Hamill