When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

I decline to accept the end of man.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.