I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.