I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
Agony without genius was gaucherie.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.