To grow old is to lose everything.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.