To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
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?
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.