It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

if somebody at least listens it not too bad

Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.