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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.