If I could do it over, I'd do better.

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

If I could do it over, I'd do better.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

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

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.