Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

Only silence perfects silence.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!

Who cares about what they think. Do what makes you feel alive and make every minute of your life count.

Every believer experiences the Joy of salvation

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

I'm just really happy.

I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.