Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Language can do what it can’t say.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

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

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

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.