Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

Chance favours a prepared mind.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?