Growing Up Human Is Uniquely A Matter

We Expect Definitions To Tell Us Not Only What Is, But What To Do About It; To Show Us How The World Fits Together And How Its Different Parts Connect And Work. ... A Label Is The First Step Toward Action.

The Common Impulse Is Not To Sustain A Marriage By Finding Satisfaction Elsewhere, But To End The Marriage And Set Up A New One Which Will Provide The Comfort Lacking In The First.

By Setting The Passenger Seat Of My Car Far Back, And Opening The Glove Compartment, I Nestle In A Very Large Sheet Of Thick Fiberboard. It's Big Enough To Hold A Table Easel, My Big Palette And A Water Container. Winter Is Not Going To Lock Me Indoors!

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be. It's Wonderful To Have Someone Like That Around, You Always Feel You Can Count On Them. You Can Go Away And Come Back, You Can Change Your Mind And Your Hairdo And Your Politics, And When You Get Through Doing All These Upsetting Things, You Look Around And There They Are, Just The Way They Were, Just Being.

Though We Do Not Have Many Poets, We Certainly Have More Than We Deserve, For We Deserve None At All. It Is Ourselves That We Are Hurting By Our Stupidity And Ignorance Of Poetry.