Be What You Are. Give What Is

Not That You Need To Be A Saint To Have Visions Worth Talking About. The Most Effective Prescription, I Suspect, Is To Be A Disciplined Sinner. Perfection, As Valery Noted, Is Work.

You Must Be Careful Not To Deprive The Poem Of Its Wild Origin.

The Poem Comes In The Form Of A Blessing, Like Rapture Breaking On The Mind.

I Associate The Garden With The Whole Experience Of Being Alive, And So, There Is Nothing In The Range Of Human Experience That Is Separate From What The Garden Can Signify In Its Eagerness And Its Insistence, And In Its Driving Energy To Live -- To Grow, To Bear Fruit.

Live In The Layers, Not On The Litter.