Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.