I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.