If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Solitude is considered un-American.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.