Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Read Summary
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. Read Summary
I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things. Read Summary
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. Read Summary
Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. Read Summary
You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about. Read Summary
If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like. Read Summary
Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did. Read Summary
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. Read Summary
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. Read Summary
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. Read Summary
I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all. Read Summary
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life. Read Summary
At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all. Read Summary
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. Read Summary
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. Read Summary
Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. Read Summary
My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Read Summary