It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.