It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

We can't tell our life from our wish

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.