It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.