My lifetime listens to yours.

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

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

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

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

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.

Exchange is creation.