The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.