Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.