Acclaim is a distraction.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.