I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.