The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

The way things work / is that eventually / something catches.

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.

It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.

Do not allow the fear of hurting stop you from loving.

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.