Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

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

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

We make the path by walking.

Poetry keeps longing alive.