If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.