We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.