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

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.

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.

Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.