My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which...
We have need of history in its entirety not to fall back into it but to see...
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward...
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.
