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- On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
- This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
- I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
- I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown…
- Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
- I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel…
- A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.
- 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…
- One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
- You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
- I know many lives worth living.
- Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This…
- You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
- A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own…
- The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
- Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
- I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a…
- On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how…
- Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend…
- When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think,…
- In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am…
- You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I…
- I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in…
- You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love…
- Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.
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