Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.