Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed