Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

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

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Try to live as if there were a God