I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.