Find Out What You Do Best, And

There Are So Many Selves In Everybody, And Just To Explore And Exploit One Is Wrong, Dead Wrong, For The Creative Person.

A Poet Trains Himself To Stand Out In A Storm And Be Struck By Lightning. If He Is Lucky Enough To Be Struck Six Times, He Becomes Immortal. Randall Jarrell Said It And He's Right.

Find Out What You Do Best, And Then Don't Do It.

Detachment Produces A Peculiar State Of Mind. Maybe That's The Worst Sentence Of All, To Be Deprived Of Feeling What A Human Being Ought To Be Entitled To Feel.

I Need About One Hundred Fifty Drafts Of A Poem To Get It Right, And Fifty More To Make It Sound Spontaneous.