Diane Ackerman Way Quotations

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing...

An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.