A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

I want nothing from You but to see You.