I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.
a poet never feels useful.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.