Reality is the completion of experience.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.