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.

Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.