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"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
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"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."
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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
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"Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."
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"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."
Creativity
"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
Humor
"Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?"
Love
"Tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!"
Mindfulness
"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair."
Humor
"They sicken of calm who know the storm."
Emotion
"My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him."
Romance
"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."
Poetry
"Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter."
Heartbreak
"Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
Philosophy
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