Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.