Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

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

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.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.

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