You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.