The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

In these dark and uncertain times, there can be great value in imagining a bit of star in each human soul.
Not just that it gives some hope for humanity at a time when man’s inhumanity to man seems ever on the increase; but also because it points to an inner brightness
that can light the way
in dark times.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

What is inside of you is where your wealth is and where your treasures comes from