My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

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

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.