Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.