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

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

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.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.