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.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Nothing gold can stay.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.