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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of...
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his...
There exist only three beings worthy of respect he priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to...
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Source: In...
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Source: In The Book of Success, ed....
By listening to the language of his locality the poet learns his craft. It is his function to lift, by the use of his...
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated -- thrown aside -- a man...
Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the...
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
Source: In Newsweek, 7 Jan...
When they ask me . . . how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem. I reply that...
The apple cannot be stuck back on The Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek...
The job is to ask questions -- it always was -- and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of...
If I see an ending. I can work backwards.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress.
Source: In The...
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes...
For a short while, our mothers bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the...
His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own...
I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be...
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were;...