Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.