Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Old men ought to be explorers.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.