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

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.

But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.

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

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

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