I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

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

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.