Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

I close my eyes, and think of water.

They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.