You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.