Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

You must not ever stop being whimsical.

So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.