Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

You have to know what you want to get it.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.