" To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ​ {Kurt Vonnegut} ​ ​ perusing...

" And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts: A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused,...

" To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not...

...but here was the wide world awake and yet only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the...

" Like a gentle whispering Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thing That breathes about us in the vacant air... ​ Perhaps to see shapes...

" The delights of the poet as I jotted them down turned out to be light, solitude, the natural world, love, time, creation itself." ​...