To burn always with this hard gem-like flame to maintain this ecstasy is...
That sense of a life in natural objects which in most poetry is but a...
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders...
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for...
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers all alone in their studios with no one watching.