I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.