Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

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

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.

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

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.