First fight. Then fiddle.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.