Each moment is a place you've never been.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

The burial of feelings has begun.

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?