True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.