I know many lives worth living.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

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

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.