There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.