We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.