A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.