Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.