Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

Your feelings are none of your business.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf