My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.