Gardening Is An Instrument Of Grace.

It Is Clear That We Do Not Exactly Choose Our Poems; Our Poems Choose Us.

It Is Only When We Can Believe That We Are Creating The Soul That Life Has Any Meaning, But When We Can Believe It - And I Do And Always Have - Then There Is Nothing We Do That Is Without Meaning And Nothing That We Suffer That Does Not Hold The Seed Of Creation In It.

I Feel Often Very Close To The Ecstasy And Anguish Which Lie At The Very Heart Of Poetry - I Am Writing A Lot.

Poetry Is First Of All A Way Of Life And Only Secondarily A Way Of Writing.

It Is, I Assume, Quite Easy To Wither Into Old Age, And Hard To Grow Into It.