Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.