Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. - William Carlos Williams

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way