Wake the happy words.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.