It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

For after all we make our faces as we go along.

a poet never feels useful.