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.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.

I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.