Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.

The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.