"To leave the open fields and enter the forest,that was the rite. Knowing there was mystery, they could go. Go back no…"

"I’ve always hated artificial flowers unless they were just flagrantly and beautifully, sort of brassily, artificial. …"

"Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow."

"Acknowledgement, and celebration, of mystery probably constitutes the most consistent theme of my poetry from its ver…"

"I like to find what's not found at once, but lieswithin something of another nature, in repose, distinct."

"I like the juicy stem of grass that grows within the coarser leaf folded round, and the butteryellow glowin the narro…"

"The world is not with us enough. O taste and see."

"Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.I who don't know the secret wrote the line."

"I love them for finding what I can't find,and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that a tho…"

"I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a soci…"