My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
Walk on air against your better judgement.
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.