Occupation: Poet Birth: September 10, 1935
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it..
Things take the time they take. Don't worry..
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in aston….
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 well as love the dog of….
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the firs….
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing..
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body..
I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang..
Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazemen….
Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness..
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it..
I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The ….
Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective..
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are ….
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to ….
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed..
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began..
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….
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable..
it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world..