But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.

The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Attention without feeling is only a report.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.