A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

I think with my right hand.