Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Writing a poem is discovering.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.