Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

My lifetime listens to yours.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

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

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