I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a sort of poet in rest, which isn't the same thing at all. But I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.