I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
We are all participants in the marvelous.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.