You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

Beware of advice-even this.

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.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'