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

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

The artist must create himself or be born again.

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

The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

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.