Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

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

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