All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

The past is a bucket of ashes

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.