Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.