Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

I don't care about age very much.

Women and music should not be dated.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.