I Often Start Writing In Order To

You're Closer To Your Glory Leaping An Abyss Than Re-upholstering A Rut.

If You Don't Fill Your Days With Love, You Are Wasting Your Life.

If Bitterness Wants To Get Into The Act, I Offer It A Cookie Or A Gumdrop.

In The World Of Poetry There Are Would-be Poets, Workshop Poets, Promising Poets, Lovesick Poets, University Poets, And A Few Real Poets.

I Tried To Stir The Imagination And Enthusiasms Of Students To Take Risks, To Do What They Were Most Afraid Of Doing, To Widen Their Horizons Of Action.