You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

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.

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

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.

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

...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.

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.