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

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.

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.

Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Sometimes you cant find the words to say. And you know what? that’s okay. Your presence still matters.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it’s just not talking.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: “You don’t seem smart enough to be so good at what you’re doing. Do you have an explanation?”

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Darkness watches me from every angle. My only friend. From its own place within the silence, it speaks to me in a strange way.

Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.