Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

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

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.