As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.