the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.