I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

I think that in poetry personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

I think I am mad sometimes.