It Feels A Long Way Up And

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

The Tragic Thing About Learning From Experience Is I Fear That One Can Only Learn From One's Own Experience. Other People's - Other Nations' - Experiences Simply Do Not Help. They Can Be Imaginatively Learned From. But People Do Not Act On Other People's Experiences.

The Creative Person, The Person Who Moves From An Irrational Source Of Power, Has To Face The Fact That This Power Antagonizes. Under All The Superficial Praise Of The Creative Is The Desire To Kill. It Is The Old War Between The Mystic And The Nonmystic, A War To The Death.

I Write Poems, Have Always Written Them, To Transcend The Painfully Personal And Reach The Universal.

Solitude Is The Salt Of Personhood. It Brings Out The Authentic Flavor Of Every Experience.