The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single...
After every war someone has to tidy up.
I have sympathy for young people for their growing pains but I balk when...
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.
