biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

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