Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too. A man cannot be separated from the earth. I come out of the garden every day feeling, oh, inspired in a way that one needs in order to convert the daily-ness of the life into something greater than that little life itself.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.