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

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Exchange is creation.

One writes in order to feel.

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

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.