Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Truth rings no bells.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.