No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Memory at last has what I sought.