I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.