Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.