If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

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

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for