To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.