I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
Speech isn't for agony.
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.