The best way out is always through.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.