Letters Are So Much Easier Than Living.

... 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.

For Art Is Order, But It Is Born Out Of The Chaos Of Life.

Solitude Is My Element, And The Reason Is That Extreme Awareness Of Other People... Precludes Awareness Of One's Self So That After A While The Self No Longer Knows That It Exists.

Death Does Frame A Person And Somehow It Is The Good That Stays.

A Garden Is Always A Series Of Losses Set Against A Few Triumphs, Like Life Itself.