Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation

It's easier to be wise for others than for yourself.