This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

I’m sorry, ’ I whispered. I didn’t know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.

Don't let what you think you know get in the way of learning what you don't know.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.