What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.