"If poetry isn't understanding all, the whole world, then it isn't worth anything."

"I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over."

"I'm not a nature poet. I've only written two poems about nature."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"I often say that I am a conservative. I am not a reactionary. I am a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a progressive. I am a conservative."