I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

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

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing