There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

a poet never feels useful.

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.