Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.