The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

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

To be free is often to be lonely.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.