The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.