The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

Books are important. They help you sleep at night.

B students work for C students - A students teach.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.