Excellence Costs A Great Deal.

Solitude Is One Thing And Loneliness Is Another.

I Feel Often Very Close To The Ecstasy And Anguish Which Lie At The Very Heart Of Poetry - I Am Writing A Lot.

Poetry Is First Of All A Way Of Life And Only Secondarily A Way Of Writing.

Poetry Finds Its Perilous Equilibrium Somewhere Between Music And Speech.

There Were Moments ... When It Seemed That All One Could Be Asked Was Just To Keep The Ashtrays Clean, The Bed Made, The Wastebaskets Emptied, As If One Never Got To The Real Things Because Of The Constant Exhausting Battle To Keep Ordinary Life From Falling Apart.