I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language. - W. H. Auden

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.