Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

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

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

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