It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

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.

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

We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

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