I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing..

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present..

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent..

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somew….

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing..

It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it….

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist:….

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death..

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is t….

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and m….

When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs….

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars..

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there..

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color..

Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and….

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel..

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single ch….

Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three.….

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it..

I couldn't unpeach the peaches..

I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the moun….