I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

And I say to my heart: rave on.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.