The meditative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off. - Don McKay

As I grew older the poetic surround becomes more important. I realize that the 'poetic attention' was more important to me than poetry was. The 'poetic attention' being a kind of longing without the desire to possess.

Poets are supremely interested in what language can't do , in order to gesture outside, they use language in a way that flirts with its destruction.

The first indication of one's status as a nature poet is that one does not invoke language right off when talking about poetry.