Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.