When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

Superior people never make long visits.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.