When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
From Mary Oliver
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
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