I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Writing a poem is discovering.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.