What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

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

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.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.