The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
. . to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.
I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.