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

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

The music is in minors.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

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

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.