Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.