My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I seek the substantial in life.