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

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

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.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.