Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.