Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.