There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.