Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.