I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals