Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.