Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.
A poem is never a put-up job so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
Don't let your work and hope be other than great.
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
I must go in. The fog is rising.
Writers can redeem a wasted day in two minutes; alas this knowledge leads them to waste their day like no one else.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then...I contradict myself. I am large...I contain multitudes.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
...a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself