we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.

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

We are not born to survive. Only to live.