It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden