Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.