Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.