Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

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

All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about