No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.
Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.
words can never get at the truth.
I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
We are born knowing death.