Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.