Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

A poem is a record of a discovery.

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen in one way or the other. Just as in painting, there's much more interest in the American scene painters and the early American... like the Ashcan school of painters. Who would have thought, 50 years ago, that Norman Rockwell would again be considered a serious painter? And yet, there are a lot of people who are saying Rockwell was a very accomplished technician. These things are constantly moving.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.