Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Holidays - Have no pity.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Love is an attraction but not a reaction.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.