A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

True affluence is to not need anything.

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.