When You Reach My Age, You Realize

A Writer's Work Is The Product Of Laziness.

Art Always Opts For The Individual, The Concrete; Art Is Not Platonic.

A Book Is A Physical Object In A World Of Physical Objects. It Is A Set Of Dead Symbols. And Then The Right Reader Comes Along, And The Words—or Rather The Poetry Behind The Words, For The Words Themselves Are Mere Symbols—spring To Life, And We Have A Resurrection Of The Word.

Time, Which Despoils Castles, Enriches Verses.

Death Is Just Infinity Closing In.