Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

My cradle was a shoe.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.