... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

a poet never feels useful.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.