From what we cannot hold the stars are made..

What you remember saves you..

When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it.….

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light..

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain.

Your absence has gone through me.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it..

Now all my teachers are dead except silence..

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color..

What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with ….

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to….

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss th….

Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of ….

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands..

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept t….

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you'….

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that….

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring..

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time..

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.