Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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.

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

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

God design of you is divine act.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.