Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

When I was a boy I was my father.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.