Anyone Who Is Going To

We Only Keep What We Lose.

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

It Is, I Assume, Quite Easy To Wither Into Old Age, And Hard To Grow Into It.

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 Fact Is That I Have Lived With The Belief That Power, Any Kind Of Power, Was The One Thing Forbidden To Poets. ... Power Requires That The Inner Person Never Be Unmasked. No, We Poets Have To Go Naked. And Since This Is So, It Is Better That We Stay Private People; A Naked Public Person Would Be Rather Ridiculous, What?