I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.