"What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunge…"

"The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger wh…"

"I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are al…"

"Mother, though my song's measure is like your surf-beat's ancient rhythm I never learned it of you. Before there was …"

"Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore-defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock…"

"Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted"

"The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than l…"

"I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment b…"

"I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the thr…"

"At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, wreathed with wet poppies, waiting spring The ocean swelled …"