A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

In nature there are few sharp lines

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

Little said is soonest mended.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

It's always good to see that someone can go out of Iceland and do some things.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.