You Have To Be In The World

I Read The Way A Person Might Swim, To Save His Or Her Life. I Wrote That Way Too.

A Lifetime Isn't Long Enough For The Beauty Of This World And The Responsibilities Of Your Life.

Instructions For Living A Life. Pay Attention. Be Astonished. Tell About It.

Love Yourself. Then Forget It. Then, Love The World.

Poetry Is A River; Many Voices Travel In It; Poem After Poem Moves Along In The Exciting Crests And Falls Of The River Waves. None Is Timeless; Each Arrives In An Historical Context; Almost Everything, In The End, Passes. But The Desire To Make A Poem, And The World's Willingness To Receive It--indeed The World's Need Of It--these Never Pass.