“A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.”

“O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.”

“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.”

“If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.”

“A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.”