Love is a sweet thing caught a momentand held in a golden eye.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.