I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.