It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.