Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe