I Once Had The Nerve

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.

A Poet Is Someone Who Stands Outside In The Rain Hoping To Be Struck By Lightning.

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

Poetry Makes Possible The Deepest Kind Of Personal Possession Of The World.

To Be Precise And Reckless: That Is The Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished.