After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.