All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.