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

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)