It Takes A Long Time For Words

Do We Always Make Our Freedom Out Of Someone Else's Bondage?

I Am Furious At All The Letters To Answer, When All I Want To Do Is Think And Write Poems. ... I Long For Open Time, With No Obligations Except Toward The Inner World And What Is Going On There.

People Who Cannot Feel Punish Those Who Do.

I Have Never Written A Book That Was Not Born Out Of A Question I Needed To Answer For Myself.

For Poetry Is, I Believe, Always An Act Of The Spirit. The Poem Teaches Us Something While We Make It. The Poem Makes You As You Make The Poem, And Your Making Of The Poem Requires All Your Capacities Of Thought, Feeling, Analysis, And Synthesis.