Why Is It That People Who Cannot

I Cannot Understand Why Poetry Is Not Taught At Schools As A Way Of Seeing, A Quick, Untiring Path To Essentials.

I Am Not Ready To Die, / But I Am Learning To Trust Death / As I Have Trusted Life.

Anyone Who Is Going To Be A Writer Knows Enough At Fifteen To Write Several Novels.

Loneliness Is The Poverty Of Self; Solitude Is The Richness Of Self.

Where Joy In An Old Pencil Is Not Absurd.