And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.