But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.