Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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.

Fernando Torres' English seems to be coming on good.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.