“When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.”

Each body has its art.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Poetry is life distilled.

Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

It is brave to be involved.

Poems are a nice way of saying fuck you.

She was simple. Like a poem, and always dressed in sunshine.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

It’s funny how love fades, and they become more than a poem about yesterday.

If you think this one is about you- it probably is.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.

Maybe he is a one kind of a poem in a form of a body.