The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.