I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.