Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

A good poem about failure is a success.

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.