The past is always a rebuke to the present.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.