Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be