I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.

Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Have you had a 'relationship discussion' with God lately? Do you need to?

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Please come to Destination I'm not doin well Exclamation

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.