All eternity is in the moment.

Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.

Attention without feeling is only a report.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.