Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

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

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

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

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.