At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.