Only Where Love And Need Are One,

All There Is To Writing Is Having Ideas. To Learn To Write Is To Learn To Have Ideas.

There Never Was Any Heart Truly Great And Generous, That Was Not Also Tender And Compassionate.

What We Live By We Die By.

When Clever People Ask Me Where I Get A Poem, I Despair.

A Poem Begins With A Lump In The Throat; A Homesickness Or A Love Sickness. It Is A Reaching-out Toward Expression; An Effort To Find Fulfillment. A Complete Poem Is One Where An Emotion Has Found Its Thought And The Thought Has Found Words.