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

To be free is often to be lonely.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.