Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
In the country of pain we are each alone.
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.