I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

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.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.