The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.