People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

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

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

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Art is born of humiliation.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Words have no word for words that are not true.