There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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