You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

Boys are the cash of war.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.