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

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

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal

We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, there is no force there.

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