“I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.”
“For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.”
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”
“Poetry is the music of the soul”
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.”