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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put...
Poetry: Not til poets among us can be 'literalists of imagination' -- above insolence and triviality and can present...
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Source: In The Speaker's...
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Source:...
Impatience is the mark of independence,
not of bondage.
Source: In The Speaker's...
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear...
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Source: The...
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is...
We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has...
Success is always something that you have to recover from.
Source: Interviews with...
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to...
We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our...
All arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
Source: In The...
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the...
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Source: In Words of Women...
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Source: The...
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Source: In Words of Women...
In a dream you are never eighty.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a...
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...