Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
Men and women women and men. It will never work.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women but you hardly ever see a smart...
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers alas have to be...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
