But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

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

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.