Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.