My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

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

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

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.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.