When you don't know any more what they're doing you are finding the poem, the old monk told the poet. #poetry

Your God can be in the ocean, can be in the sky, in the desert, the old monk suggested. Your God can be in the stars. #poetry

What makes a good poem, what makes a bad poem -- you read enough poems, you know, the old monk said. #poetry

Sometimes you want it to just sit right down on you, the old monk admitted. #poetry

You carry your failures -- I know I have to carry mine, the old monk said. #poetry

When you get through the notebooks to the end what you find is a silly kind of sadness, the poet said about the old monk's. #poetry

Don't think about what it means, think about how it sounds, the old monk told the struggling poet. #poetry

Two things you don't run out of -- bad jokes and sad stories, the old monk said. #poetry

If picking your battles was like picking pickles, you'd get paid by the bushel, the old monk told the generals. #poetry

How far you'll chase it tells us how bad you want it, the psychologist told the old monk. Some poets make it til their eighties. #poetry