Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

When the image is new, the world is new.

We must listen to poets.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

I go back for seconds and thirds and fourths and fifths, when it’s good. Just not if it means some guy gets to put a leash on me.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

The love of God is all I need.

I don't have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.

We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.