The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.

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

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

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

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

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

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.