The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

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.

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.