I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.