Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

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

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.