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.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.

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

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.

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

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