“It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

“Weak ForcesI enjoy an accumulatingfaith in weak forces--a weak faith, of course,easily shaken, but alsoeasily regained--in whatstarts to drift: all theslow untrainings of the mind,the sift left of resolvesustained too long, thestrange internal shiftby which there's no knowingif this is the raod takenor untaken. There are softaffinities, possibly electrical;lint-like congeries; moonlithints; asymmetrical pinkglowy spots that are nothe defeat of something,I don't think.”

“I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.”

“In the hills giant oaksFall upon their kneesYou can touch parts You have no right to”

“Bait GoatThere is adistance wheremagnets pull,we feel, havingheld them back. Likewisethere is adistance wherewords attract.Set one outlike a bait goat and wait and seven otherswill approach.But watch out:roving packs canpull your wordaway. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunchto thank.”

“CROWNToo much rainloosens trees.In the hills giant oaksfall upon their knees.You can touch partsyou have no right to—places only birdsshould fly to.”