As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

I should learn from today and make tomorrow better.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.

Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.