How Slowly One Comes To Understand Anything!

Words Are More Powerful Than Perhaps Anyone Suspects, And Once Deeply Engraved In A Child's Mind, They Are Not Easily Eradicated.

What Can I Have That I Still Want?

Public Education Was Not Founded To Give Society What It Wants. Quite The Opposite.

... The Reason Why There Are So Few First-class Poets Is That Many People Have Intense Feelings Or First-class Minds But To Get The Two Together So That You Will Be Willing To Put A Poem Through Sixty Drafts, To Be That Self-critical, To Keep Breaking It Down, That Is What Is Rare. Right Now Most Poetry Is Just Self-indulgence.

Being Very Rich As Far As I Am Concerned Is Having A Margin. The Margin Is Being Able To Give.