"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
"We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."