Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.