Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.