I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, " he said.

Expanding can only be done when the company is ready.

The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.