“It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this cr...”

“I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.”

“I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.”

“God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”

“Gospel The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns hidden in the shadows of the cottonwoods beside the streambed. I go higher to wh...”