I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.