A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.