I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.