Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.