The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.