Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

The hands are the heart's messengers.