a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Do not allow me to forget you

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

Nobody teaches life anything.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.