To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.
There is no method except yourself.
Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.