Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.