The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

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.

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.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

Anger is a momentary madness.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.