Language can do what it can’t say.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

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

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.