I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.