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

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

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.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.