One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Don't be an agnostic. Be something.