I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

All eternity is in the moment.