perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.