If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

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.

Be thankful.Be grateful.

I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

In your patience ye are strong.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

If you Don't have Love, Harmony & Peace within you, then you Can't Contribute these Qualities

I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!