All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.
The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.