Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.